Our first cut was adorable, but it said nothing.

How we used Blender and AI agents to create our 30-second claymation video.

By Sweat AI

We wanted to make a 30-second claymation video capturing our philosophy at Sweat AI.

Our first cut produced warm light, cute characters, and cheerful analysts sitting around an office. It looked cute, but failed to explain what we actually do.

Sweat runs real compliance analyst teams, powered by our own AI, that work through review backlogs for banks and fintechs. These could be onboarding, KYC, fraud or AML (anti-money laundering reviews).

So we threw out most of the first cut and started again. The new version follows a simple case: there are more reviews than a team can get through, a Sweat analyst picks one up, finds a missing detail, follows up, and sends back a completed review.

It may not be perfect, but we were impressed with how far animation through agents has come, considering we're not professional animators here. No clay was harmed.

From storyboarding in Blender to agent hand-off

We used Codex to script simple characters, desks, folders and actions in Blender, held each pose for two frames (twelve poses a second, exported at 24 fps) so the motion steps like real stop-motion, and blocked the action before worrying about looks.

Then the style pass. A generated reference image sets the clay texture, the warm office light and who stands where. Each five-second Blender guide and its reference go into MiniMax H3 on fal, which returns the same moment in clay. We picked the best takes and cut them together in FFmpeg. To be clear about what this is: digital animation in a claymation style. No clay was harmed.

Grey boxes, but the timing and the handoff are already right.
The same moment after the style pass.

We rejected some clips because they didn't really convey much.

The final cut.

We later added soundtrack and narration through ElevenLabs. We used Product Demo Director to check the export, timing and loudness.

Most of the cost came from transforming Blender renders and 3D previs into photorealistic video via H3 Max.

In The World is Changing: AI For Creativity, Jeffrey Katzenberg argues that better tools give storytellers more room to create. Our small version of that: the tools gave us lots of options, and feedback about our customers decided which ones belonged.

Made by Sweat AI. Our day job: AI-supercharged analysts taking care of your backlog, nights and weekends. Meet the real team behind the little clay one ↗